Local WordPress Development with Docker
Getting the LAMP stack setup for local development can be difficult. With Docker we can get setup in five minutes. In this post I'll show you how....
Consul on Docker EE
”Consul is a service networking solution to connect and secure services across any runtime platform and public or private cloud” – (https://consul.io) This post details a way to run a Consul cluster on Docker EE ...
Deploying a docker container to AWS Part 2
Check out Part 1 if you haven’t already, as this post assumes you’ve got a docker container running in AWS already. In addition, make sure you have the AWS CLI up and running. Using the ...
Deploying a docker container to AWS Part 1
AWS, with its ever growing collection of services, seems to always have an answer to a problem. When it comes to hosting an application with docker, AWS has its Elastic Container Service (ECS). ECS has ...
docker – adding commands to containers
Introduction I am fully invested living within docker containers. Utilizing containers makes switching between versions of various applications easy. However, leveraging tools within that container can be frustrating; as many standard commands are missing. For ...
Docker Parameterized Builds Using Git Tags, Part 2 of 2
In Part 1 we constructed an automated image build on Docker Hub in which a package (Dropbox) can be updated using the git tag. In this post we’ll go further and use the tag to ...
Docker Parameterized Builds Using Git Tags, Part 1 of 2
When building a Docker image, sometimes it is desirable to have an image for different package versions or even different base images. One way to do this is with a branch for each version. This ...
AWS ECR with Gradle
AWS Elastic Container Registry is a registry service for Docker images. It supports the Docker API for registries and therefore can be used with `docker pull`, `docker push`, etc. It also works with Gradle ...
My DockerCon17 Experience
This year I attended (http://2017.dockercon.com) to boost my understanding of Docker and its ecosystem. DockerCon’s growth has been great, with 5,500 attendees this year. My first impression was surprise in the size of the ...
Docker Image Automated Tests
We are going to explore automated testing for docker images. I found this to be a bit more difficult than application testing because images are generally built with shell scripts and I couldn’t find ...